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On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org> wrote:
> The text for the pattern attribute says "Defaults to MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM
> AM_or_PM or MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS AM_or_PM" - which indicates we should be
> using a (thread-local) SimpleDateFormat rather than rely on the
> standard patterns.
Hi Stefan. I agree, we should retain BC if possible, despite Java9's
efforts to break it. --DD
PS: I've been lurking in the recent JIRA activity regarding this, thank you
for your efforts.
PPS: How to retain BC (thread-local or not), I'll leave it to you and
others :)